Jim Doherty wrote:
Arguably, Shakespeare himself did a far greater job of
trashing his own ROMEO & JULIET with the "Pyramus and
Thisby" sketch in MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM than Bernstein ever
did. Of course, that was an outright parody, not a supposedly
straight adaptation. And,
IIRC, MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM actually precedes R&J, so,
technically, I suppose, R&J trashed P&T.
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It would be nice if R&J preceded MND [I like to think it did; the P&T sketch becomes even funnier, as you allude to), but as to which actually came before the other, there is currently no answer that is not speculative--they're too close in time & no documentation exists.
And may I say, Jim, it's nice to argue with you again!
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